In addition to discrimination, market power, and human capital, gender differences in risk preferences might also … contribute to observed gender wage gaps. We conduct laboratory experiments in which subjects choose between a risky (in terms of … more likely than men to select the secure job, and these job choices accounted for between 40% and 77% of the gender wage …

lower wages for women, relatively higher productivity for part-timers). Interactions between gender and part-time suggest … between wage/productivity differentials and the firm's labor composition in terms of part-time and sex. Findings suggest that … that the positive productivity effect is driven by male part-timers working more than 25 hours, whereas the share of female …

important contributing factors explaining the gender productivity gap are firm characteristics, such as firm size, age of the …We examine the patterns and correlates of the productivity gap between male-owned and female-owned firms for informal … productivity gaps observed at the lower end of the productivity distribution. Using decomposition methods, we find that about 73 …